Earthfall (2015)

Captivating movie !

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This movie is so awful, it should be deemed a crime against humanity. Seriously, If I had an option to A: Watch this movie or B: Sprinkle weaponized anthrax on my pancakes, I'd be in a rush to griddle up my pancakes. The movie plot is so stupid, it's insulting.

EARTHFALL is yet another generic science fiction disaster flick made by the SyFy Channel, exactly the same as all the rest they've done over the years. A massive asteroid passes too close to Earth and upsets our gravitational field, causing the planet to spin out of control; a whole wave of natural disasters follow. The usual bunch of TV actors, down on their luck to a man, attempt to figure out a way to stop things. This is good if you like watching terrible CGI effects of cities being destroyed and devastated, but for anyone with real taste in cinema it will be a chore to sit through.

REALLY GOOD START, BUT WHERE'S THE ENDING??? Good plot to start, good actors, good acting. Problem is, at the end of the movie I felt as though I'd seen the first quarter of the show and had been cheated out of seeing the last 3 quarters of it. WHY would they take a viewer through all that turmoil just to end it flat at the moment the planet (and it's occupants) were going to start the REAL adventure - creating a new world out of the ruins of the old one. I just CAN NOT understand why they stopped only 1 quarter of the way in. There doesn't seem to be a follow-up movie or a series coming off it. This movie could have continued with so many additional plots; the military setting up a base and people living there, while people who had survived without the military set up small communities all over the globe (working their way out from the area that people were still alive in). It wouldn't have to be every community fighting every other community, either. Why not every community working to help each other and reinstate commerce with each other. There could be a farming community trading goods with a mining community and a crafting community trading goods with both of those, and on and on. Runners as mail carriers. Traveling tutors for the kids, traveling medical units from the medical community, kids sent to craftsmen, hospitals, farms, libraries, etc., to live in their teen years in order to learn a trade (since the colleges would probably no longer be viable, right?) and on and on. Sooooo much more could have come from this movie than just another "shoot-em- up-bang-bang" debacle.

With anticipation high after reading the plot summary - A rogue planet roars through our solar system. It acts as an intergalactic magnet that pulls Earth in its wake..... Sounds good? Well I had high hopes of a fun B Grade classic.To the directors / writers credit they did use every cliché available and the effects were as expected for a low budget production. The acting could have been better but there is potential for Denyse Tontz who was the best of the group and did have some credibility.The plot moves along and the story keeps you engaged enough as tension builds for the climatic finale.Then BOOM it's over. No idea if the solution that the world agreed upon worked or what.... just the end. This was the reason I didn't give it a 5/10.